June 2008

little news and inspiration

Anna the talented blogger/interior designer over at Absolutely Beautiful Things blog was the first person to order a custom print from me. She just wrote to inform me that she posted how she displayed my “dancing girls” in her stunning office. Her post led to other wonderful bloggers ordering/ posting and then my opening a little etsy shop. I have not tried to promote it to much cause I’ve been busy, but it’s there. I plan to add more work to it soon, then maybe try to announce it to some blogger pals.

I’m also thrilled to have been featured on Print + Pattern blog yesterday, a blog I find endlessly stimulating!! Yippeee!! Great things.

On a different note, I am really inspired by the geometric wood blocks above that I saw on Happy Mundane. Here’s the designer’s site Tumi-Ishi. Time to make more geometric patterns.

photos based on kid’s drawings

I love love love this idea. This photographer takes photos based on children’s artwork. Read more on Laissezfaire and Craft.

Or look directly at Jeondoo Jung’s site.

i married my best friend

I guess I’m getting personal this week…

On a moody and overcast June day (a year ago from today), Dave and I got married. As I walked down the grassy path the wind rustled the leaves and the gray sky looked beautiful and peaceful. Everything after that flew by as if to take place within a moment. It was spectacularly fun to salsa dance to the live Cuban band, eat cupcakes that my mom baked with handmade chocolate roses, watch the slideshow I prepared of our childhood photos through the present (did I ever mention that we discovered only two weeks prior to the wedding that we were in the same daycamp group in 1983? We found a photo of us standing next to each other with 80’s hairstyles, we didn’t know we’d met 23 years before our wedding), the funny video Dave prepared, and drink mojitos in the company of everyone we love. We did not have a formal wedding photographer. We just had our friends snap shots and upload them to a flickr group. I have to make a blurb book that will stand in as a wedding album. It’s such a daunting job. I swear, I’ll get to it this summer. Really, I must. This is our one year anniversary so I’m a little delayed needless to say. This year has been a ball. Dave and I have so much fun together, truly he is my best friend (and webmaster).

my other life

In addition to illustration and pattern making, I’m an art teacher. I absolutely love it. There are tough days of course but I work with a wonderful age group 5 yr-8yr old. Kids are wonderfully creative and so fascinating to be around. Sometimes I come home exhausted but I get revived by doing my own artwork. The school year is wrapping up. Here are some really nice letters I received and some cute photos of some first graders displaying their giant ice cream cone painted sculptures. One of the letters is from one of my favorite kindergarten kids about the time I was “apsint” (absent). I was at Surtex. I think that’s me in the garden. Nice attention to detail, he added roots on the flowers and my curly hair. The sweet one on top required a little phonetic translation, “lick”= like, “droing”= drawing, “pating”= painting. I chopped the photos to protect the kid’s secret identities. They’re super heroes in their other lives.

Have a lovely weekend.
xo,
-Samantha (aka Ms. Hahn)